{"nrhp_refnum":"82003418","name":"St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"One Hudson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.933628456000065,"lon":-73.89860466699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church complex at One Hudson Street in the central business district of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, on a walled site. The church dates from 1752-53 and was rebuilt and enlarged in 1874 to designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter, with a chapel, parish house and rectory added in 1890-91.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that St. John's is one of New York State's oldest churches and one of the first built of stone, with close ties to Yonkers' development since the mid-eighteenth century. Original fabric from 1752 survives within the 1874 rebuilding by Potter, widely considered one of his best works. The 1890-91 additions by Robert H. Robertson give the group a distinctive visual unity.","narrative":"St. John's Church complex occupies a walled site in the central business district of Yonkers, New York, providing green space amid dense development. The parish dates to 1693, and Frederick Philipse II provided for the first church, built in 1752-53 of stone with brick quoins. It served as a hospital during the Revolution and survived a fire in 1791. After additions in 1849, architect Edward Tuckerman Potter designed a larger church in 1874 that kept the old south wall, south transept and parts of the east wall. Fieldstone and red brick blend old and new work, and the west front has a large rose window. In 1890-91 Robert H. Robertson added a chapel, parish house and rectory in matching materials, joined to the church by an arcade. The complex is valued as an example of continuous architectural and community history, with original eighteenth-century fabric still visible.","period_of_significance":"1752-53, 1874, 1890-91","architect_builder":"Edward Tuckerman Potter (1874)","architectural_style":"Victorian re-interpretation of colonial architecture with Dutch colonial details; vernacular early English Renaissance vocabulary","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, privately owned religious property; the interior of the chapel and parish house have been much altered, and the modern school building does not contribute to the historic complex.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.90857-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003418.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003418/887dc10ee2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003418/887dc10ee2-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._John%27s_Episcopal_bells_in_Getty_Square_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._John%27s_Episcopal_bells_in_Getty_Square_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323231","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Protestant_Episcopal_Church_(Yonkers,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7588817"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/st-johns-protestant-episcopal-church-82003418/"}